Re: [MiNT] Network and USB problems with NetUSBee

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:42:03 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> On 06/20/11 21:08, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:33:36 , Lars Schmidbauer <latzmaster@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> i have a strange problem with my new NetUSBee and MiNT (1.17.0 and 1.18.CUR).
> >> This is not so easy to explain, hope it doesn't get too long ;-)
> >>
> >> Every kind of networking with small files works normal (Highwire, MyMail, AtarICQ,
> >> GEMDict, zWeather, nfs+ftp+telnet to ubuntu-PC).
> >> But bigger downloads (with Highwire, Litchi, wget or ftp on console) are stopping after
> >> a while; FalcAmp runs into buffer underrun problems soon.
> >> The connection is not really broken, but download stops (and stops at a different point
> >> when trying again).
> >> For example:
> >> - Highwire, doing a google picture search is running correct and fast (many small picture-
> >>   files); downloading small files from freemint CVS works ok, too. But when Highwire tries to
> >>   load the big pictures from http://ctpci.atari.org/, transmission stops and only the smaller
> >>   ones are displayed.
> >> - wget on console, downloading daily freemint build stops at various points. I can't see that
> >>   there's a definite "magic barrier" where it stops.
> >> - ftp on console, kurobox.serveftp.net, download of /video-films/zmerge2.zip stops (same as wget).
> >> - MyMail stops randomly at downloading mail x of xxx.
> >>
> >> I can't even define how big "smaller" or "bigger" files are.
> >> This happens only with MiNT! Everything (Highwire, GAPftp, FalcAmp...) works correct with TOS
> >> and StinG with enec6.stx. Because of that, NetUSBee should be OK.
> >> There are similar problems with my NE2000 ISA network card (EtherNEC), but this card is very
> >> old and second-hand, i always thought that this is another issue.
> >>
> >> Tested on two Falcons:
> >> - Falcon/CT60@80MHz/CTPCI, clockpatch on U63
> >> - Falcon/CT63@66MHz, no clockpatch, SDMA patch 50 Ohm/27 pF
> >> with drivers
> >> - enec6.xif (CT60 archive or www.newtosworld.de)
> >> - ne2kenec.xif (http://assemsoft.atari.org/ne2k/)
> >> - inet4.xdd (freemint build or http://assemsoft.atari.org/ne2k/)
> >>
> >> The ne2kenec.xif seems to work a little bit better than enec6.xif.
> >> Sure i checked all the valid files for setting up networking:
> >> config.if, defaultroute, resolv.conf, hostname, /stik_cfg/default.cfg, /highwire/modules/...
> >> Ping, traceroute, netstat work correct; ifconfig shows no serious problems (sometimes
> >> a few in-errors <10).
> >> --------
> >> ifconfig ne0:
> >> ne0:    flags=0x43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING>
> >>         inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> >>         metric 0 mtu 1500
> >> Router and network-cable are OK, too.
> >>
> > I had the same problem when switching from 1.15.12 to 1.16
> >
> > The problem was never found in Mint but I managed to fix it by reducing the
> > adsl-modem MTU size setting.
> >
> > There were several long threads on the mintlist about this and the floppy
> > drive issue.
>
> Can you elaborate ? What was the MTU and what you have now ?
>
> What floppy drive issue too ?
>
> Thanks,

Nothing since 1.15.12 has been able to format a floppy. Seems to be connected
with syslog IIRC. Kill the process and it will format.

I now have MTU of 1458, I can't remember what it was, would have to find the thread.

Regards,

Peter